The Fruit of Liberty : Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: States and Status in the Florentine Renaissance -- 1 - Imagining Florence: The Civic World of the Late Fifteenth Century -- 2 - Great Expectations: The Place of the Medici in the Office-Holding Class, 1480-1527 -- 3 - Defending Liberty: The Climacteric of Republican Florence -- 4 - Neither Fish nor Flesh: The Difficulty of Being Florentine, 1530- 1537 -- 5 - Reimagining Florence: The Court Society of the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- Conclusion: Florence and Renaissance Republicanism -- Appendix 1: A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500 -- Appendix 2: Biographical Information -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
In the sixteenth century, the city-state of Florence failed. In its place the Medicis created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty analyzes the slow transformations that predated and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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